On 2022-09-12 at 15:50:57 UTC-0400 (Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:50:57 -0700) Brandon Long via mailop <[email protected]> is rumored to have said:
By their very nature, the personal servers that people are talking about here just don't see the same volume of spam.
Of course not. That's a truism. More significantly (and as has been well-known for 2 decades) everyone's spam is different. It's not just volume, it's character. Spam is non-fungible. I work with mail systems in between the personal and the oligopolistic, where it is starkly obvious that there are distinct flows of spam targeting distinct sets of users and domains. The spam control problems I see on the systems I manage for small business customers are quite different from what I see on my personal system and every piece of spam that has ever landed in one of my inboxes on a freemail provider or their sibling business offerings is spam that would have been rejected by any system I ran -- not because I'm special, but because spammers focus on getting around oligopoly spam filters, not SpamAssassin.
I sometimes see an analogy to mail handling at large and small sites in the differences between Newtonian and quantum physics...
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